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60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

These are advanced techniques that require more than just technical knowledge of Photoshop, they require talent, Photoshop training, knowledge of design, layout, balance, color theory, etc. I hope you find these techniques inspiring and helpful.

UPDATE: (8/28/13) I just updated any broken links and replaced unreachable tutorials with new ones. I also just realized today is the 6 year anniversary of creating this post!

Text-effects:

Movie techniques:

Vector effects:

Photo Retouching:

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Photo Manipulation:

Web Buttons / Interface Elements:

Digital Coloring:

Digital Painting:

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I'm generally not not a huge fan of producing an effect in Photoshop that looks like it was produced in Photoshop. For instance when someone uses blending options like "glow" or "drop shadow" ...and no other creative combination of anything else, & the effect IS the glow or drop shadow or the..... lens flare (god forbid.)

My thoughts are that after having used Photoshop since version 2.5 LE primarily for comping out web interfaces and some mild digital art, I've found that there are many features to help you but not do the work for you. You have to be creative and use the tools AND your own creativity to finish with a quality result. Otherwise you just look like you don't know what you're doing. Granted, there's that saying "There's nothing new under the sun" only our perspectives. So check out these tutorials and get inspired - if you have a tutorial you feel is worthy for me to add, email it to me and I'll check it out.

Helpful Links

http://www.tutdesk.com/
This is one of the few sites I have found that actually is design well itself and also has a nice amount of quality Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

http://dr-photoshop.com/
I like the look of this site, specifically the color scheme and simplicity. The tutorials are to the point, and cover a wide range of techniques.

http://www.deviantart.com
This site shouldn't need any introduction if you've been online for any length of time, and are into digital art. They've been around for a while, and they're only getting stronger. Talk about a pioneer of niche social networking! If you want to see an endless amount of amazing Photoshop digital painting tutorials - go here and type in "Photoshop tutorial" into the search bar. They have thousands of amazing user submitted tutorials.

These are incredible. Thank you for sharing. I can see that a tremendous amount of work and effort was made to share what you know and I really appreciate that. I’m bookmarking you on all my computers.

I have to say I’m all for open source software and all especially with the price of Photoshop being so high but it’s got very-very-very long way to go in overcoming the fact that most professional Photoshop users are using Macs or PCs. Let alone the fact that Linux is impossible to use for most of the population. I have to admit I really have honestly never heard of or even seen any graphics produced from GIMP so I cannot attest to it’s quality similarities with Photoshop.

Personally I run 2 computers with Windows XP and 1 with Fedora Core 6 which is basically dedicated to email and chat only and I do actually have GIMP installed installed but I don’t ever use it. I tried using it once and became totally frustrated after about 10 minutes and gave up. I know it’s not a great work ethic, but there’s a limit for instance when you can’t figure out how to do something so stupidly simple like “create a new layer” in under 5 minutes… it’s time to call it quit folks. he bottom line is Linux is just too difficult for 99% of people to figure out (myself included) how to use it and so it’s not worth the time to try and figure it out.

Honestly I spent like 3 hours trying to figure out how to get a wireless network card on a laptop running Ubuntu once. It’s absurd that it’s so difficult and I look forward to the day when it’s not and then Linux will have my attention.

Ok all that being said – I want to say additionally, I understand the heart behind GIMP and I fully support it. Even though It’s just not for me at this point I realize that it is for some people, and I want to do what I can to promote its development. So I will make a very strong attempt to put together as good a lits as possible of GIMP tutorials. If anyone would like to contribute to this effort (knows of any good places to start off hand, is interested in creating some new ones, submitting old ones, etc.) please let me know. Either email me or post whatever you have here and I’ll waste no time getting started.

I just Bookmarked your site. I have just gotten Photoshop and am anxious to start learning more about using it. So I will be using you as a resource. Thank you for taking time to create this information. Great Job

Holy mother of God! What a great list! Thank you for taking the time to comb through the BS photoshop tutorials and finding the ones worth looking at. Some of these tutorials I have seen before, but now they are all one place. Kudos to you my friend!

It’s interesting that you feel that way about linux. I also use both Fedora and Ubuntu. Ubuntu detects my laptop’s wireless card and the rest of the hardware each time. Even the printer is detected: XP takes about two hours of fighting with different drivers to work with the printer. I use KDE, and all KDE tools, so that might be why I have such good luck with Linux.

I do agree that Gimp is not up to the level of Photoshop, though. I have no problem paying the money for Photoshop, but until it’s available for linux I’ll continue learning Gimp. Thanks.

Thanks for compiling these advanced tutorials Dennis. Many of these I’ve seen on the net before and I especially like the Photo Retouching ones as I’d been wanting to brush up on that. I nearly paid $800 to take a retouching course at Art Center a couple weeks ago and then decided I’d save the money and learn it on my own. I’m really thankful you have these tutorials as it saves me the time to search for them.

Deviant art seems to be really going down hill. Most designers need creative surroundings. Creative elements are always positive, while deviant art is, even to its very name, negative/destructive. It saps inspiration which is unfortunate. The artwork is not appealing to the best and the brightest.
Hopefully they can turn it around, we’ll see.

Just wanted to say YOU ROCK! Keep up the great work, love the tutorial collection. I’ve used a few of these before, but they were scattered all over, and it took forever to find them when I needed em again, its nice to find them all in one place.

Hello!! This site is superb. Earlier I could open in the Photo Retouching section the second tutorial she is a girl who is looking up. But now I cannot open or it asks username or something like that. How can I see this tutorial?
Thanks

Great tutorials!!! however the tutorial I have been searching for forever is one for the cloning of animals and human/animal hybrids, I guess a really top class photoshop blending tutorial is what I’m after…does anybody have any to recommend, as the one on this website only shows the finished product, but awesome work nonetheless.

It`s simply unbelievable especially how u achieve something similar with the pirates of the carribean with photoshop it`s really wonderful you re great dennis. I would appreciate if i can get a book or DVD that can teach all these things in simple easy step am a professional photographer in Nigeria pls send me information concerning how, where and how much to get it

Thanks Lateef but I didn’t create any of these tutorials myself. The thanks go out to those who did. Also, I don’t have any suggestions for good PS books (I did all my learning from online tutorials ; )